Before fundraising, make sure your financial model can answer these 12 questions
Review revenue, costs, cash, funding needs, scenarios, and formula traceability before you decide to share.
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Make your financial model a shared language
Practical guides to financial modeling, cash planning, and fundraising preparation for startup founders.
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Review your financial model before you share it
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Upload the Excel model you already have
Start with an .xlsx file. Tessly identifies worksheets, periods, currencies, scale, and core financial line items.
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Review what Tessly imported
Confirm that revenue, costs, headcount, cash, and other line items are mapped correctly before you continue.
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Make key assumptions explicit
Turn pricing, customer growth, gross margin, hiring, and spending cadence into assumptions you can explain and compare.
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Complete a pre-share review
Use the 12-question checklist to review formulas, sources, runway, and use of funds before you choose a version to share.
The goal is not to make finance sound more complex. It is to turn each question into something you can check.
Every guide explains when it applies, how to review the model, common red flags, and what Tessly can help with today.
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What Tessly Academy covers
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Financial modeling fundamentals
Revenue drivers, cost structure, three-statement models, and formula traceability.
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Cash and runway
Burn rate, payment timing, funding gaps, and safety buffers.
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Fundraising preparation
Raise size, use of funds, milestones, and common investor questions.
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Model review
Scenario comparison, assumption checks, data sources, and pre-share review.
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Go beyond reading and start organizing your model
Tessly identifies worksheets, periods, currencies, financial line items, and selected key assumptions so you can begin with a visible structure to review.